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From: Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rowley <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: can we mark upper/lower/textlike functions leakproof?
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 13:51:41 -0700
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On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 7:26 AM Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are you proposing that we invent two levels of leakproofness
> with different guarantees?  That seems like a mess, not least
> because there are going to be varying opinions about where we
> should set the bar for the lower level.

It kind of reminds me of the kernel's "paranoia level" tunables, which
seem to proliferate in weird ways [1] and not make for a particularly
great UX.

--Jacob

[1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1400874/what-does-perf-paranoia-level-four-do

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